Surfing is the new career

September 3, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Three months ago I wrote about farming and hunting. It seems, though, that the growth industry of our generation is surfing. Talk to surfers and they'll explain that the entire sport comes down to the hunt for that blissful moment...

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Don Quijote didn’t ship

September 3, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Society makes heroes out of entrepreneurs and adventurers that tilt at windmills and succeed. Napster slays the music industry! Twitter comes out of nowhere! The thing about taking on the biggest giants is that most of the time (so often...

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Who do you work for? (And who works for you?)

September 3, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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I always took the position that my boss (when I had a job) worked for me. My job was to do the thing I was hired to do, and my boss had assets that could help me do the job...

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Becoming a bus company

September 3, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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We all have a vision of the typical bus company, slowly moving people from place to place, going through the motions and showing a lot of fatigue. Some of the elements that make an organization feel like a bus company:...

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Are you an elite?

August 12, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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In the developing world, there's often a sharp dividing line between the elites and everyone else. The elites have money and/or an advanced education. It's not unusual to go to the poorest places on earth and find a small cadre...

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Will you miss them if they leave? (Call for linchpins)

August 6, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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If you know someone who does great work, who brings passion and humanity with them instead of leaving it at the door of the factory, I’d like to help you celebrate them. Read on for three ways you can do...

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Sentences, paragraphs and chapters

May 30, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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It's laughably easy to find someone to critique a sentence, to find a missing apostrophe or worry about your noun-verb agreement. Sometimes, you're lucky enough to find someone who can tell you that a paragraph is dull, or out of...

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All you need to know…

May 15, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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is that it's possible. Mike sent me a great story about an ultra-lightweight backpacker: "Wolf was carrying a super-small pack which weighed 14 pounds including food and water. When asked how he got his pack weight so low, Wolf would...

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Announcing first dates for the road trip (Boston, DC, MN and Chicago)

May 13, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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As mentioned before, I'm bringing my New York seminar on the road. I've found that people can really benefit from direct and personal interactions, and so I'm bringing the seminar to a select group of cities over the next year...

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Do you have a media channel strategy? (You should.)

May 10, 2010 by RoosterMoon Publishing · Leave a Comment
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Twenty years ago, only big companies and TV stars worried about media channels. Oprah was on TV, then she added radio. Two channels. Then a magazine. Pepsi set out to dominate TV with their message, and billboards and vending machines....

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